The government's now-famous healthcare bill is starting to take shape, but is still a long way from being settled upon. One of the bigeest questions that needs to be answered deals with insurance, and whether or not there should be a government-funded insurance company to compete with the leading outside competitor. President Obama was who the nation had its eyes on, as he was to reconcile his party divisions, while Olympia Snowe from Maine was to decide on a government plan that would create a fallback as a compromise idea.
I find it pretty easy to believe that the Times had a shortage on content for this issue, as one of the lead stories dealt with standardized math scores from the state of New York. The story was simply put and summerized very nicely in the first sentence; that there were little to no changes in math scores from tests administered to fourth ad eighth graders this year. Although teachers report a growth in the numbers over the past few years, federal standards say that a majority of these kids are proficient in math, which continues to disappoint teachers and parents all throughout the nation.
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